Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈Watching the humans clean and maintain the cat sanctuary around the lazing cats that I watch on Youtube really highlights that joke about Libertarians....
Thorsten RochelmeyerAuch heute ist wieder so ein Tag, an dem man sich unwillkürlich fragt:
Warum sitzt Jens Spahn noch nicht im Knast?
StrypeyThe comments I made here;
https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/116740511298882540
... about the intuitive appeal of libertarianism to teenagers, applies equally to anarchism.
This is a tricky claim. Because in leftish usage, 'anarchist' tends to mean 'anti-authoritarian socialist'. While 'libertarian' often means 'corporatist apologist'. Clearly these are wildly different things.
Bear with me though, I'm going somewhere with this. Hopefully somewhere useful ; )
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Strypey (@[email protected])
"Most (but not all) Westerners make the transition from stage 2 to stage 3 during adolescence." #DavidChapman https://vividness.live/developing-ethical-social-and-cognitive-competence Many of the people who identity loudly online as "libertarianism" have yet to make this transition. Either because they're still teenagers, or because their circumstances haven't yet supported them to move beyond the cognitive mode of teenagehood. This creates a heavily distorted picture of what libertarians might believe, our ethical approaches, etc. (3/3)
Maggie MaybeHahahaha GOOD. But it’s icky that in the list of reasons for the, pedophilia isn’t listed. I appreciate that they agree that racism is bad, but so is abusing women and children.
“Without the national party, the New Hampshire Libertarian Party cannot get candidates for office on the state ballot as Libertarians. It also strips members of voting rights at the national conventions.” ⬇️
Granite State #Libertarians Booted From National Party After New Hampshire Party Chairman's Speech | Manchester, NH Patch https://patch.com/new-hampshire/manchester-nh/granite-state-libertarians-booted-national-party-after-new-hampshire
MimiRE: https://lgbtqia.space/@alice/116642885553210946
Au nom du fric, du pèze et du saint bénéfice ils transforment le contenu des bus scolaires pleins d'enfants en terrain de jeu pour keufs.
On vit vraiment une époque formidable, faites des gosses et ils s'occupent du reste ...
Raven MoonWoodNaomi Kritzner's Liberty's Daughter isn't solar punk or utopian fiction. It's about a privileged young woman living on a libertarian 'seastead' on the ocean and using her privilege to liberate bond-workers and debt slaves and working folk there. It ends with folks trying to remake the place. I guess it might be hope punk because it's certainly more hopeful than grim.
Doug BostromThese findings may seem depressing but really the're a useful, concrete indicator of why coercive regulation with teeth is necessary. In order to manage some small percentage of bad apples, optimized cooperation needs to be formally codified with norms, actively responsive to the frailties of human nature.
Ammunition for discussions with dilletante starry-eyed #libertarians. We (and our regulations) don't have a perfect answer to "is this greed, or need?" but still we are reminded that a few people warped by circumstances including unfettered greed can degrade an entire population's experience and outcomes. Pretending otherwise is folly. "Let it be" isn't adequate.
"Human cooperation is dynamic and often declines even under favourable conditions1,2,3,4. Many prevailing theories explain the decrease of cooperation in terms of strategic behaviour or learning, framed as evidence of rational behaviour or progression towards rationality5,6,7,8,9. Here we show that a key source of long-term decline derives from deviations from rational behaviour that systematically vary over time. We analyse a natural social dilemma in the field—that is, group lending in Sierra Leone—tracking cooperative dynamics over a five-year period. Borrowers enter a joint-liability contract, structured so that if the group loan is not repaid in full, all members lose access to future credit10. This produces a threshold social dilemma with incentives to free-ride11,12. The dataset includes 47,931 group payments made by 7,108 borrowers, augmented with a two-stage cluster sample of semi-structured interviews. We find a statistically robust pattern of punctuated decline driven by behavioural mechanisms13. Cooperation rates start out high but gradually decline due to decreases in group members’ cooperative motivation and effort. Sharp rebounds occur when loans are restarted and clients resensitized to their cooperative responsibilities, even though the group membership and dilemma structure are largely unchanged. This pattern persists over the five-year observation window, but with each successive restart the subsequent decline is more rapid. The findings have direct implications for preventing behavioural decline in cooperative programmes and institutions."
Punctuated decline of human cooperation - Nature
Cooperation in group lending declines over time due to shifting behavioural motivations, briefly rebounds after loan restarts, then declines faster again, revealing systematic deviations from rational behaviour driving long-term cooperation loss.
Ed Wiebe#Libertarians are hilarious.
Unfortunately, they waste the time of reasonable people.
Apparently some banks were over generous, he wants to bill for "expert knowledge and experience [given] to the provincial health officer" regarding pandemic restrictions, and "he suffered cruel and unusual punishment under the Charter’s rights to mobility over health restrictions for unvaccinated individuals."
officerripleyListening to Curtis Yarvin is like reading Ayn Rand, omg so bad.
Nicholas A. FerrellPook-Emu Bee: Links For 03-10-26
I missed publishing a set of Pook-Emu Bee links yesterday. But that just means I have more links saved for today. If you enjoy the (almost) daily links and commentary, you can also follow via feed. 1. Qatar Wants to Bolster Security Partnership with US After Iran's Strikes (Reuters [via gCaptain]. March 10, 2026.) If so they should explain this to their local international TV outlet. 2. The joys of data centers: Debunking the backlash against the $7 trillion AI building boom (Christian […]https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/pook-emu-bee-links-for-03-10-26/
